Faculty

Primary Faculty

Vasilis Ntranos

Vasilis Ntranos, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health


Travis Porco, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission


Mike Reid

Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Global Health, HIV, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness, Global Health Security


George Rutherford, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

George Rutherford, III, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Epidemiology and prevention of infectious and tropical diseases, with a primary focus on HIV/AIDS; epidemiology of tuberculosis in California, the prevention of childhood injury, immunizations, Hepatitis C, evidence-based medicine and public policy, preterm birth, implementation science and bioterrorism


Jaime Sepulveda, Executive Director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Jaime Sepúlveda, MD, DrSc, MSc, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • AIDS, STIs, diarrhea, cholera, geographical information systems, epidemiologic surveillance systems, ethics and health, health system reform, national health surveys, nutrition and health, vaccines, immunizations, implementation sciences, neglected tropical diseases, tobacco control, maternal health, child health


Starley Shade, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Jennifer Smith, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Catherine Ines Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha

Catherine Ines Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health


Jacqueline Torres, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • Social and migration-related determinants of health and aging in the US and Latin America; health effects of immigration policy across the life-course; health disparities; family dynamics and health


Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • Global mental health, HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, health equity, community-engaged research, implementation science, mixed methods


Paul Wesson, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality


Lydia Zablotska, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Global Health


Secondary Faculty

Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science


Judy Hahn, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The use of TB prophylaxis in HIV/TB co-infected alcohol users, as well as interventions to reduce drinking and increase antiretroviral therapy adherence


Hacsi Horvath, MA
Fellow
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Medical ethics, HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, systematic reviews


Thomas Lietman, professor at UCSf

Thomas Lietman, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • trachoma


Saam Morshed, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Saam Morshed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Orthopaedics, trauma, post-traumatic arthritis


Mark Seielstad, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark Seielstad, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics


Affiliate Faculty

Dhruv Kazi, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, cost-effectiveness, m-health, global health, anticoagulation


Emeritus Faculty

Richard Feachem, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Malaria


Dean Jamison, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Dean Jamison
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, health policy


James G. Kahn, professor emeritus at UCSF

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health


Sarah Macfarlane, professor emerita at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Sarah Macfarlane, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Maternal and child health and nutrition, health workforce development, and strengthening information and surveillance systems


Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Maternal health, family planning, and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, measurement, people-centered care, quality improvement


Edward Murphy, professor at UCSF

Edward L. Murphy, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Viral epidemiology as applied to transfusion safety and global health


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